This show is G4's great answer to other networks biography shows like "Bio" and "E! True Hollywood Stories" and what G4's seems to have modeled this show after, "Intimate Portrait". This show represents the best and worst aspects of G4. Best because it shows the channel does have the potential to do some intelligent, and informative programming. The episodes are mostly great and even the most hardcore G4 haters will give the show lots of love. In fact, for many it's because of G4 not wanting to do anything else as intelligent as Icons that many lash out at the channel and it's other shows.

It represents the worst of G4 because even though the show is almost always well meaning, alot of G4's greed, ignorance, and personal politics manage to slip through and rear it's ugly head. Probably the earliest example of this was when the show was first getting started and doing great with viewers until G4 started abusing the shows name declaring all kinds of new, crappy games that which some weren't even out, Icons. The first was the infamous TLOR scandal where they declared a crappy new game based on the license an Icons before it was even out. Then they did Splinter Cell and Xbox Icons, but again, this was way before Splinter Cell was what we all know today, all these we're really just infomercials not histories. People on the boards we're pissed and it seemed like G4 got...